Mark Duggan was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London, in August 2011

Prior to his death he had been off sick for three months suffering from anxiety and depression, and the day before the shooting he attended his GP's surgery, saying he felt suicidal and would "take others with him".

The inquest heard that girlfriend Tina Harper visited him at his flat at about 6.20pm, where she found him holding a handgun.

In tearful evidence from the witness box she said: "He told me he was really depressed.

"I said to him you will get through it. And he said 'you don't know what's going on in my head.'"